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Police: Men leaving Publix threatened by man with knife

Palm Beach police were called to Publix last week on a report that a man wielding a machete was threatening a group of men, according to a police report.

Police arrived at 12:30 p.m. and took statements from three men who said they were leaving Publix when one of them shouted to get the attention of a friend. Another man thought the man was yelling at him and began instigating a fight, according to the report. As the three men began to walk away, he got into his landscaping truck and drove alongside the three men. He pulled out a knife “with sharp teeth,” stating that he would take all three of them, witnesses told police.

The knife was described as being 4-5 inches long, according to the report.

One of the men who was threatened stood in front of the truck and took a photo of the man while waiting for police. Officers put the man in handcuffs, read him his rights and questioned him, according to the police report. He told police that one of the men had been “looking at him hard” and admitted to a verbal altercation but denied displaying a knife or machete.

When shown the photo of himself holding the knife, he stated, “That’s not a machete,” the report said.

The men didn’t want to press charges so no one was arrested.

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